Stanley Aviation Company
Stanley Aviation is an aerospace company started by Robert M Stanley, the aviation pioneer, in Buffalo, New York in 1948. The company has since acquired several other companies and has been most recently acquired by Eaton Corporation.
Stanley is also noted for its design and production of military aircraft ejection seats; originally located in Aurora, Colorado. The company's exhibit collection of ejection seats was donated to the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Denver, Colorado, June 3, 2007.
1948 - Robert M. Stanley, founder and Navy test pilot founded Stanley Aviation.
1954 - awarded an ejection seat contract. Stanley opened a new 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m2) plant in Aurora, Colorado. This was expanded to 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m2) in the mid-1950s.
1964 - acquired the Gamah Corp. of Santa Monica, California that designed and manufactured flexible 0-ring couplings and related aerospace parts and equipment.
1965 - GamahTM's products were licensed to Flight Refuelling Ltd. of Wimborne, England for the Concorde, Airbus and Tornado aircraft programs. Also, for US companies, Boeing, Douglas Aircraft, NASA (Apollo program, Lunar Module).
1977 - Mr. Stanley died in a plane crash on July 16, 1977. This started the close-out of contracts id, brought to an end an era in the history of the Corporation, and contracts in the aerospace industry. On July 21, 1990, he was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame.
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